Way to blow a good lead and give your opponents ammo, and especially at an opponent that’s trying to grab onto every possible thing that could be an ammo.
Edit: And I also wanna say, man I just can’t with the CPC. Their rhetoric sucks, their role as the opposition is juvenile af (just look at this childish comeback!), and their entire existence feels like they just pull Canadian politics down to the sandpit and make people fight like dumb kids who don’t know and can’t act better.
The Japanese does this!
I’ve definitely heard of irrational hatred towards the Libs from South Asians, but not so much from those of Chinese descent, but tbf my real life circle isn’t that big and we don’t really talk about politics. As an immigrant myself from a similar demographic (am Southeast Asian), I have to say that I don’t understand this rightward shift in voting sentiments. Is it cause they’ve never been under Harper, or never heard of what things were like under him? (I’ve only been here since Trudeau) The Cons never came across as being friendly to non-Whites, and that should already be a warning sign.
But afaik, a good number of the Chinese that I know of are generally supportive of being tough on crime and see Canada as being unsafe, especially the older generation. They praise China for having strong police presence and for its seemingly lower crime rate, and then says things like, “It’ll never be like that in Canada. And to think that we came here because it used to be bad there and was much safer here.” One that I’ve talked to said that he supports the CPC for being tough on crime (allegedly I would say, but nonetheless), and support scaling back immigration even further to hopefully bring back how Canadians used to be much more friendlier (he sees the large increase in new immigrants as a reason why Canadians have become less friendly overall). Perhaps to these people, they would rather trade being possibly oppressed for a chance of having lower crime rate? Idk how that’s more assuring from a safety standpoint but it makes sense to them.
Isn’t the issue here that she can’t re-enter Canada, and IRCC seems to refuse helping her?
Thanks for the link. I’ve updated the post
Thanks for the notice. I thought it’d be nicer if I posted an Indivious link but I guess it’s not that simple :/ I’ll change it to a YT link
So you think someone should somehow just get citizenship just because they’ve stayed there for long enough? Many countries do not approve of dual citizenship, and so most people would have to give up on their original citizenship to become a Canadian citizen. That’s not something to be taken lightly of. People have relationships in their home country, and they might lose easy access to their home country by forfeiting their citizenship and getting a Canadian one. How they get taxed in their original country also changes, and might also be detrimental to their finances depending on how much business and investment they’re conducting. What about having to take care of family?
And even if they don’t have any of those, you may live in a foreign country for 25 years, but you might not have thought of the new country as home, and that could be the case for various reasons, some of which may be bad ones, but there are good reasons as well.
So, like the other comment said, you’re showing a great lack of empathy, but tbf, you might not be aware of these considerations someone has to think about while deciding whether getting that citizenship is worth it.
It might not be manipulation, but from the “buy now” messaging that they said, it effectively is.
Seriously, every time I hear arguments similar to your coworkers, I say the same damn thing, “WTF are you doing here?”
I’ve also heard things like, “Canadians are just not competitive, too laid back, and/or lazy,” and it makes me roll my eyes, like they don’t understand the culture here and just think the US is more “healthily” competitive, people are somehow “more motivated” to work, etc.
“Like seriously, WTF are you still here?”
I grew up in another part of the world and I know what “not competitive” looks like; people literally do not want to care about competition, and their only response when actual competition comes around (inevitably when there’s a similar business in town) would be to lower prices and hammer them ads when a better player comes around. They’re so lazy that they would set up a business, treat their employees badly, have literally no proper vision and path for their business, and expect their business to auto-pilot to success, and for some, their businesses will somehow survive. Workers are also lazy; pushing responsibilities around is basically the national work culture, and those with any sense of responsibility ends up getting burdened by all the work people push around. You can certainly survive and actually thrive here if you know how to protect your time and energy, and continually skill-up (most people don’t do that), but work will feel like a slog a lot of the times just cause of all the above reasons.
If I didn’t see the domain name I would’ve thought this was a parody website.
These people are whackos.
More like “Make every confession an accusation!”
This is such a nice quote! I love this! At the same time, I feel a tinge of sadness, that this sort of sentiment is still just a sentiment that’s not widespread, and there are lots of people “submit(ted) to the vile doctrine of the 19th century that every enterprise must justify in pounds, shillings and pence of cash income…“ Heck! We have major political parties that are working exactly for that doctrine!